As part of the grant program, the EC intends to intensify cooperation with Tokyo in the financial sector.
“These initiatives, among other things, include... raising awareness among EU and Japanese businesses and financial service providers, promoting cooperation between them and encouraging their activities in third countries in the four main areas of interaction (digital, transport, energy and human communication) ", - stated in the grant description.
We are also talking about creating a portal for investors, which will collect projects in the field of interaction.
Viktoria Fedosova, deputy director of the RUDN Institute for Strategic Studies and Forecasts, member of the MGER political council, in an interview with RT, explained the EU's desire to "support the optimism of financiers."
“The European Union is facing record inflation, energy prices continue to rise, and the head of the European Central Bank, Lagarde, spoke about the upcoming increase in the key rate.
Against this background, it is necessary to support the optimism of financiers by promising new ambitious projects with Japan, to encourage entrepreneurs, who now, together with the Japanese, will be forced to look for platforms for Western neo-colonialism, to distract society from the agenda of economic decline,” the expert said.
At the same time, according to her, digital cooperation, which is being discussed in the EU, includes assistance to the largest Japanese semiconductor manufacturers in obtaining a new market and expanding projects.
Earlier, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced the launch of a first-of-its-kind digital partnership with Japan.